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SUMMARY:Disputing the Deluge with Darko Suvin joined by Editor Hugh O’Connell and special guests
DESCRIPTION:Collected 21st-Century Writings on Utopia\, Narration\, and Survival by DARKO SUVIN\nwith Editor HUGH O’CONNELL\nwith guests Marc Angenot\, Gerry Canavan\, Patricia McManus\, & Eric D. Smith\n“Everything in here is of note\, from the essays early in this century on fascism and on fantasy to the most recent pieces on the enduring importance of communism; the growing danger of anti-utopian discourse; and especially the totalizing environmental\, economic\, political\, and cultural terror and destruction brought on by the systemic operations of the Capitalocene.” —Tom Moylan\, Glucksman Professor Emeritus at the University of Limerick\, Ireland\, and author of Becoming Utopian: The Culture and Politics of Radical Transformation (Bloomsbury\, 2020) \nFor over 50 years\, Darko Suvin has set the agenda for science fiction studies through his innovative linking of science fiction to utopian studies\, formalist and leftist critical theory\, and his broader engagement with what he terms “political epistemology.” Disputing the Deluge joins a rapidly growing renewal of critical interest in Suvin’s work on science fiction and utopianism by bringing together in a single volume 29 of Suvin’s most significant interventions in the field from the 21st century\, with an Introduction by editor Hugh O’Connell and a new preface by the author. \nBeginning with writings from the early 2000s that investigate the function of literary genres and reconsider the relationship between science fiction and fantasy\, the essays collected here—each a brilliant example of engaged thought—highlight the value of science fiction for grappling with the key events and transformations of recent years. Suvin’s interrogations show how speculative fiction has responded to 9/11\, the global war on terror\, the 2008economic collapse\, and the rise of conservative populism\, along with contemporary critical utopian analyses of the Capitalocene\, the climate crisis\,COVID19\, and the decline of democracy. By bringing together Suvin’s essays  all in one place\, this collection allows new generations of students and scholars to engage directly with his work and its continuing importance and timeliness. \nDarko Suvin is Emeritus Professor of English at McGill University\, Canada\, and has been a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada\, Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences\, since 1986. Darko has authored 25 books\, including the foundational study in science fiction Metamorphoses  of Science Fiction: On the Poetics and History of a Literary Genre(1979\, 2016)\, Victorian Science Fiction in the U. K.: The Discourses of Knowledge and of Power (1983)\, Positions and Presuppositions in Science Fiction (1988)\, and In Leviathan’s Belly: Essays for a Counter-Revolutionary Time (2012). \nHugh C. O’Connell is Assistant Professor of English at University of Massachusetts-Boston\, USA. He is editor of Legacies of Blade Runner\, special issue of Science Fiction Film and Television (2020; with Sarah Hamblin); Speculative Finance/Speculative Fiction\, and a special issue of CR: The New Centennial Review (2019; with David M. Higgins). \nMarc Angenot\, FRSC\, a professor in McGill’s French Language and Literature Department for over forty years\, has been awarded the Prix du Québec Léon-Gérin for his outstanding contributions to the social sciences. He is world-renowned for his research and is widely considered the founder of Social Discourse Theory. His vast body of work encompasses intellectual history\, linguistics\, politics\, semiotics\, rhetoric and informal logic\, as well as literary theory. Among his critically acclaimed works are Le Marxisme dans les grands récits (Paris\, 2005) and Dialogues de sourds (Paris\, 2008). In 2004\, The Yale Journal of Criticism published a special issue titled “Marc Angenot and the Scandals of History”.  Gerry Canavan is co-editor of special issues of American Literature and Polygraph on “speculative fiction” and “ecology and ideology\,” respectively and has edited (with Kim Stanley Robinson) the critical anthology\, Green Planets: Ecology and Science Fiction\, 2014 and The Cambridge Companion to American Science Fiction (co-edited with Eric Carl Link\, 2015. Dr\, Patricia McManus is a senior lecturer in the Humanities at the University of Brighton. She is the founder of the Dystopia Project. Her research interests are the novel —in particular the problems involved in understanding genre as a productive force in literary history — and Marxism as a methodology for utopianism. Eric D. Smith. is professor of modern and contemporary British and Anglophone literature at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. He is the author of Globalization\, Utopia\, and Postcolonial Science Fiction: New Maps of Hope (Pagrave\, 2012) and editor of Darko Suvin’s career-spanning collection Parables of Freedom and Narrative Logics: Positions and Presuppositions in Science Fiction and Utopianism in the Ralahine Utopian Studies Series (Peter Lang\, 2021).
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/disputing-the-deluge-with-darko-suvin-joined-by-editor-hugh-oconnell-and-special-guests/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Art and politics,Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Critical Theory,Emancipation,Fantasy Fiction,Food and politics,Literary Studies,Marx,Media Criticism,Modernity,Pandemics and Capital,Science and Technology,Science Fiction,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:The Condition of the Working Class in Turkey
DESCRIPTION:Labor under Neoliberal Authoritarianism\nEditors Çağatay Edgücan Şahin and Mehmet Erman Erol joined by contributors Cosku Celik\, Ertan Erol\, and Elif Hacısalihoğlu\nA comprehensive new study that uncovers the real story of working-class struggle in Turkey\nDecades of neoliberal authoritarianism have propelled Turkey into crisis. Regime change\, economic disaster and Erdogan’s ambition to impose ‘one-man rule’ have shaken the foundations of Turkish political life. This presentation will look at the historical and current outcomes brough about by the authoritarian\, militarized civil life for Turkish workers. What will be the long term consequences for workers in Turkey? \nMoving beyond the headlines and personalities\, this book uncovers the real condition of the working class in modern Turkey. Combining field research and in-depth interviews\, this book offers cutting-edge analyses of workplace struggles\, trade unionism\, the AKP’s relationship with neoliberalism\, migration\, gender\, agrarian change and precarity\, as well as the Covid-19 pandemic and its impact on workers. This volume also brings together a broad range of Turkish activists and scholars who consider what the dynamics and contradictions of working-class resistance against Turkey’s neoliberal authoritarian regime have become; worker self-management\, organized labor\, and class struggles in rural areas are examined. \nÇağatay Edgücan Şahin is an Associate Professor of Labor Economics at the University of Ordu\, Turkey. He has published various books including Human Capital and Human Resources: A Critical Approach (2011).\nMehmet Erman Erol is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Cambridge\, UK. He has contributed to journals and books on Turkish & Middle East political economy and labor market restructuring.\nCosku Celik (York University\, Visiting Assistant Professor). Her chapter entitled ‘The Making of the Rural Proletariat in Neoliberal Turkey’\nElif Hacısalihoğlu (Trakya University\, Turkey\, Assistant Professor). Chapter ‘A View of Precarization from Turkey: Urban-rural Dynamics and Intergenerational Precarity’\nErtan Erol (Istanbul University\, Turkey\, Assistant Professor) Chapter ‘Burden or a Saviour at a time of Economic Crisis: AKP’s ‘Open-Door Migration Policy’ and its Impact on Labor Market Restructuring in Turkey \nAll events are sliding scale—choose the level at which you are able  to contribute to The Marxist Education Project. No one is denied admission to any event or class because of an inability to pay. Send an email to info@marxedproject.org to obtain an entry url to any. event or class presented by The Marxist Education Project. \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-condition-of-the-working-class-in-turkey/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Covid and Capital,Labor Organizing,Labor Process,Neoliberal Authoritarianism,Organizing,Political Economy,Revolutions Study Group,Seminars and Talks,Workers’ Inquiry,Working Class History
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SUMMARY:Rethinking Alternatives with Marx: Economy\, Ecology and Migration
DESCRIPTION:Himani Bannerji\, Michael Brie\, Gregory Claeys\, and Silvia Federici with editor Marcello Musto\n \nThis book presents a Marx that is in many ways different from the one popularized by the dominant currents of 20th century Marxism. The dual aim of this collective volume is to contribute to a new critical discussion on Marx’s critique of political economy and to develop a deeper analysis of certain questions\, like ecology and migration\, to which relatively little attention has been paid until recently. \nContributions of globally renowned scholars\, from nine countries and multiple academic disciplines\, offer diverse and innovative perspectives on Marx’s points of view about ecology\, migration\, gender\, the capitalist mode of production\, the labour movement\, globalization\, social relations\, and the contours of a possible socialist alternative. \nOrder the book here: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-81764-0 \nThis event is sponsored by the Marxist Education Project\, Shelter & Solidarity\, The Community Church of Boston\, Encuentro5\, Hardball Press\, and Socialism & Democracy
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/rethinking-alternatives-with-marx-economy-ecology-and-migration/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Agribusiness,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Immigration,Indigenous Peoples,Marx,Migration,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:Book Special Redux! Marx Dead and Alive: Reading Capital in Precarious Times
DESCRIPTION:We are pleased to offer Andy Merrifield’s 2020 book\, Marx Dead and Alive: Reading Capital in Precarious Times with a total price of $12.50 including shipping.\n“This enchanting portrait of Marx at work\, with his legendary overcoat and shuffling ways\, is brilliant\,\ninformative\, and beautifully written. Merrifield then puts the insights he derives from reconnecting with\nMarx’s writing to work to illuminate everything from the writings of Gogol and Dickens to the\narchitectural disaster of New York’s Hudson Yards.”\n— David Harvey\, author\, A Companion to Marx’s Capital and Marx\, Capital and the Madness of Economic Reason \n  \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/book-special-marx-dead-and-alive-reading-capital-in-precarious-times-with-shipping/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Class,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Intro to Marxism,Marx's Capital,Political Economy,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Technology,Socialism
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SUMMARY:We Are “Nature” Defending Itself: Entangling Art\, Activism and Autonomous Zones
DESCRIPTION:THIS EVENT IS POSTPONED. A later date in 2022 will be found.\nby Isabelle Fremeaux and Jay Jordan\nChronicles the story of the ZAD (zone to defend)\, a resistant land occupation emerging out of a decades-long struggle which stopped a new airport project\nIn 2008\, as the storms of the financial crash blew\, Isabelle Fremeaux and Jay Jordan deserted the metropolis and their academic jobs\, traveling across Europe in search of post-capitalist utopias. They wanted their art activism to no longer be uprooted. They arrived at a place French politicians had declared lost to the republic\, otherwise known as the ZAD (the zone to defend): a messy but extraordinary canvas of commoning\, illegally occupying 4\,000 acres of wetlands where an international airport was planned. In 2018\, the 40-year-long struggle snatched an incredible victory\, defeating the airport expansion project through a powerful cocktail that merged creation and resistance. Fremeaux and Jordan blend rich eyewitness accounts with theory\, inspired by a diverse array of approaches\, from neo-animism to revolutionary biology\, insurrectionary writings and radical art history. \nThis event considers one of a number of books from the new Pluto Books Vagabonds series. Published in collaboration with the Journal of Aesthetics & Protest. Further info: https://vagabonds.xyz/wandi/  \nIsabelle Fremeaux is a popular educator and action researcher. She was formerly Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at Birkbeck College London. Along with Jay Jordan\, she is a coordinator of The Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination. \nJay Jordan is co-founder of Reclaim the Streets (1995-2000) and the Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army\, and co-author of We Are Everywhere: The Irresistible Rise of Global Anticapitalism (Verso\, 2003) and A User’s Guide to Demanding the Impossible (Minor Compositions\, 2011). He is a coordinator of The Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination. \n  \nAll events are sliding scale—choose the level at which you are able to contribute to The Marxist Education Project. We have introduced a $2.50 rate (less than a one way transit fare) for those who want to contribute but have difficulty with all three levels of our sliding scale of $7 to $11. No one is denied admission to any event or class because of an inability to pay. Register with the “Cash at First Session” option if you are not able to pay. \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/we-are-nature-defending-itself-entangling-art-activism-and-autonomous-zones/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Agribusiness,Art and politics,Class and Gender,Climate Change,Ecosocialism,Emancipation,Food and politics,Insurgency,Mutual Aid,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:50 Years of Anti-Imperialist Writing: Galeano\, Rodney\, and Ghosh
DESCRIPTION:Convened with Fred Murphy\, Gerardo Rénique and Gunnett Kaaf\nA reading group to celebrate and reflect on two classic works of anti-imperialist writing first published fifty years ago but with an ongoing worldwide impact: Eduardo Galeano’s Open Veins of Latin America (1971) and Walter Rodney’s How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (1972). Extending our scope to Asia and bringing matters up to the present day\, we will conclude by reading Amitav Ghosh’s just-published The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis. These discussions will be led by Gerardo Rénique and Fred Murphy\, joined by Gunnett Kaaf for the Africa sessions and consideration of Walter Rodney’s study. \nGerardo Rénique taught history for many years at the City College of New York. He is a frequent contributor to Socialism and Democracy and NACLA: Report on the Americas. His research interests include the political traditions of popular movements in Latin America\, and race\, national identity and state formation in Mexico. \nFred Murphy has led numerous study groups on Latin America\, ecosocialism\, and related topics at the Marxist Education Project since 2015. He studied and taught Latin American history at the New School for Social Research. In the 1980s he traveled in Latin America as a journalist for several socialist publications. \nGunnett Kaaf is a Marxist activist and writer based in Bloemfontein\, South Africa. \n  \nAll events are sliding scale—choose the level at which you are able to contribute to The Marxist Education Project. No one is denied admission to any event or class because of an inability to pay. Send an email to info@marxedproject.org to obtain an entry URL to any event or class presented by The Marxist Education Project. \n  \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/50-years-of-anti-imperialist-writing-galeano-rodney-and-ghosh/2022-01-03/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Africa,Anti-colonialism,Asia,British Imperialism,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Classes/Events,Food and politics,Globalization,Hegemony,historical materialism,Indigenous Peoples,Latin America,Multi-session Classes,Revolutions Study Group,Seminars and Talks,South Africa
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SUMMARY:Siegebreakers: A discussion of Justin Podur's novel set in Gaza
DESCRIPTION:A novel by Justin Podur\nwith two weeks of group discussions*\nJustin made a presentation on Siegebreakers on Saturday\, September 18 with the Marxist Education Project’s Literary Studies Group \nUnder the crushing weight of the siege of Gaza\, Laila and Nasser are members of the Palestinian resistance fighting desperately to free their people. Together\, they learn of a plan to unite the disparate Palestinian factions and break Israel’s siege. Unknown to them\, Ari\, a brilliant Israeli spy\, has decided that his conscience can no longer allow him to participate in the starvation of Gaza. A double agent whose every move is under mounting suspicion\, Ari reaches out to the American contractors who trained him with a secret plan. As they all struggle to break the siege\, they face the wrath of the Israeli military machine. \n“Siegebreakers is at once a gritty\, violent thrill ride and the first book I would hand to someone who wants to understand Gaza today.” —Dr. Tarek Loubani\, emergency doctor and volunteer physician at Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza City \n“Based on an industrious research\, this dramatic and powerful tale shows once more the power of fiction to illuminate and expose what the media fails\, or is unwilling\, to disclose about life under siege in the Gaza Strip and its impact on the people incarcerated in it.”  —Ilan Pappe\, historian and author of The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine \nJustin Podur is the author of Haiti’s New Dictatorship. He has contributed chapters to Empire’s Ally: Canada and the War in Afghanistan and Real Utopia. He is an associate professor in the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University in Toronto. \n*Discount codes for purchase of book will be provided with registration \nAdmissions: All events are sliding scale—choose any of the stated to contribute to The MEP. No one is denied admission to any event or class because of an inability to pay. Send an email to info@marxedproject.org to obtain an entry url to any event or class presented by The Marxist Education Project. \n  \nVery sorry. Not enough registrations. Please write for a refund. \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/siegebreakers-author-presentation-with-justin-podur-with-two-weeks-discussion/2022-01-06/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Emancipation,Food and politics,historical materialism,Insurgency,Israeli occupation,Palestine,Radical Literature,Revolutions Study Group,Seminars and Talks,Solidarity
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SUMMARY:A People’s History of Detroit
DESCRIPTION:with authors Mark Jay and Philip Conklin\n \nRecent bouts of gentrification and investment in Detroit have led some to call it the greatest turnaround story in American history. Meanwhile\, activists point to the city’s cuts to public services\, water shutoffs\, mass foreclosures\, and violent police raids. In A People’s History of Detroit\, Mark Jay and Philip Conklin use a class framework to tell a sweeping story of Detroit from 1913 to the present\, embedding Motown’s history in a global economic context. Attending to the struggle between corporate elites and radical working-class organizations\, Jay and Conklin outline the complex sociopolitical dynamics underlying major events in Detroit’s past\, from the rise of Fordism and the formation of labor unions\, to deindustrialization and the city’s recent bankruptcy. They demonstrate that Detroit’s history is not a tale of two cities—one of wealth and development and another racked by poverty and racial violence; rather it is the story of a single Detroit that operates according to capitalism’s mandates. \n“Jay and Conklin work backward before working forward. The authors first offer a people’s history of Detroit’s present\, subverting chronology to read the resurgence narrative of Detroit against the grain and reveal the erasure of Black Detroit via the myth of Detroit’s ‘Golden Age’ in the ’30s\, ’40s\, and ’50s. This allows them\, and therefore us\, to understand the systemic problems facing contemporary Detroit first\, and then uncover their prehistory second\, instead of the other way around.” — Hannah Zeavin\, Los Angeles Review of Books \n\nhttps://lareviewofbooks.org/contributor/hannah-zeavin/ \n\n\n“Equal parts an urban history of a single city and a sweeping theory of capitalism. . . . Through a detailed exposition of one city’s past\,A People’s History of Detroitimagines what a people’s future could look like in Detroit—and in other cities.” — David Helps\, Public Books \n\nMark Jay received his PhD in sociology from the University of California\, Santa Barbara.\nPhilip Conklin is a PhD student in the History of Consciousness at the University of California\, Santa Cruz.\nThey are coeditors of the literary and political magazine The Periphery. \n  \n  \nBOOKS AVAILABLE\nDUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS\ndukeupress.edu\n320 PAGES / 17 ILLUSTRATIONS\norder the book with this discount code: E20HSTRY \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/a-peoples-history-of-detroit/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Austerity,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Classes/Events,Financialization,Fordism,Globalization,historical materialism,Housing,Labor History,Labor Organizing,Labor Process,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Modernity,Organizing,Political Economy,Race and Class,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks,Urbanism,Working Class History
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SUMMARY:Power Despite Precarity
DESCRIPTION:Strategies for the Contingent Faculty Movement in Higher Education\nwith authors Joe Berry and Helena Worthen\n“A masterful look at the challenges involved with organizing workers in higher education. Berry and Worthen provide excellent recommendations regarding vision and strategy\, making the book valuable beyond the field of higher education.” —Bill Fletcher\, Jr.\, author of They’re Bankrupting Us: And Twenty Other Myths about Unions\nHigher education is the site of an ongoing conflict. At the heart of this struggle are the precariously employed faculty ‘contingents’ who work without basic job security\, living wages or benefits. Yet they have the incentive and\, if organized\, the power to shape the future of higher education. \nPower Despite Precarity is part history\, part handbook and a wholly indispensable resource in this fight. Joe Berry and Helena Worthen outline the four historical periods that led to major transitions in the work-lives of faculty of this sector. They then take a deep dive into the 30-year-long struggle by California State University lecturers to negotiate what is recognized as the best contract for contingents in the US. \nThe authors ask: what is the role of universities in society? Whose interests should they serve? What are the necessary conditions for the exercise of academic freedom?  Providing strategic insight for activists at every organizing level\, they also tackle ‘troublesome questions’ around legality\, union politics\, academic freedom and how to recognize friends (and foes) in the struggle. \nJoe Berry is a founder of the Chicago Coalition of Academic Labor and a long-time leader of the international COCAL and New Faculty Majority. He has served on many national contingent faculty committees. He is the author of Reclaiming the Ivory Tower: Organizing Adjuncts to Change Higher Education (Monthly Review Press\, 2005). \nHelena Worthen is a novelist\, union activist and retired contingent faculty worker. Her book\, What Did You Learn at Work Today? The Forbidden Lessons of Labor Education (Hardball\, 2013) won the 2014 Best Book award from the United Association for Labor Education. \nBOOK AVAILABLE AT plutobooks.com\nUSE 30% DISCOUNT CODE: MEP \n  \nTHE TIMES LISTED ARE EASTERN US and CANADA Eastern Standard Time / This event will be 9:30 to 11:30 PM GMT \n  \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/power-despite-precarity/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Austerity,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:Lefebvre / Althusser: Humanist and Anti-Humanist Marxism
DESCRIPTION:Considerations for Opposition to Capital in the 21st Century\nwith Andy Merrifield\nAndy Merrifield has written two significant essays regarding the relationships of the lives and works of Henri Lefebvre and Louis Althusser\, their working together and apart\, both essays being important for conceiving next steps for an internationalist left now more than half a century past the events of 1968 in France and the Hot Autumn of 1969 shortly thereafter in Italy. Links to each essay is below the extracted quotes below. \n \n“LIKE MARX INVERTING HEGEL\, Lefebvre stands mainstream economic and sociological wisdom on its head: ‘we must consider industrialization as a stage of urbanization\,’ he says\, ‘as a moment\, an intermediary\, an instrument. In the double process (industrialization-urbanization)\, after a certain period the latter term becomes dominant\, taking over from the former.’ This is a bold\, provocative statement for any Marxist. For it suggests that the mainstay of the capitalist economy isn’t so much industrialization as urbanization\, that industrialization all along was but a special form of urbanization. Capitalism reigns\, Lefebvre says\, because it now manages and manufactures a very special commodity: urban space itself — an abundant source of surplus value as well as a massive means of production\, both a launch pad and rocket in a stratospheric global market.” —Andy Merrifield\, https://mronline.org/2021/03/28/lefebvre-in-the-age-of-covid/ \n“LEFEBVRE’S AND ALTHUSSER’S WORK OVER THAT DECADE [1970s]\, from differing tried to valorize for the Left a capitalist state in crisis. Could a unified Left leverage state power away from a disgruntled Right? Could it do so in the streets\, in the factories\, and through the ballot box? Could forces within the state be modified by organized pressure from the outside? Could pressure from the outside not only transform the inside but actually become that inside? ‘Ons’engage\,’ Althusser used to say\, ‘et puis on voit.’ And yet\, after engaging\, after jumping into the fray\, what one saw was a dramatic power shift\, a transition and renewal in the reverse direction. It was the Right who got its act together\, who closed ranks\, whose class power ‘condensed\,’ just as the Left’s fell apart\, as its unity fractured into disunity.” —Andy Merrifield\, https://mronline.org/2021/06/13/lefebvre-and-althusser-reinterpreting-marxist-humanism-and-anti-humanism/ \n“Dialectical Urbanism shows a fruitful direction for the Marxism of the future. Exploring the collision between abstract capitalist space and concrete human place\, Andy Merrifield offers a fresh vision of the totality of modern life.”   —Marshall Berman\, City University of New York \n“Exceptionally well written\, informative insightful\, thoughtful and thought-provoking\, Marx\, Dead and Alive: Reading Capital in Precarious Times is an extraordinary study and one that should be a part of every community\, college\, and university library Contemporary Political Science and Theory collection.”       —Midwest Book Review \nAndy Merrifield is an independent scholar and the author of numerous books including his most recent Marx Dead and Alive (2020)\, of which his presentation with The MEP last year was one of our highlight events. His other books include Dialectical Urbanism (Monthly Review\, 2002)\, Magical Marxism (Pluto Press\, 2011)\, The Amateur (Verso Books\, 2018)\, and What We Talk About When We Talk About Cities (and Love) (OR Books\, 2018). \n  \nAll events are sliding scale—choose the level at which you are able to contribute to The Marxist Education Project. No one is denied admission to any event or class because of an inability to pay. Email info@marxedproject.org to obtain an entry URL to any event or class presented by The Marxist Education Project.\n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/lefebvre-althusser-humanist-and-anti-humanist-marxism/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Classes/Events,Critical Theory,Emancipation,Political Economy,Seminars and Talks,Social Reproduction,Urbanism
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SUMMARY:States and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of France\, Russia and China
DESCRIPTION:An ongoing free offering \nA close reading of Theda Skocpol’s States and Social Revolutions\nConvened with Sam Salour\nStates and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of France\, Russia and China is a 1979 book by political scientist and sociologist Theda Skocpol\, published by Cambridge University Press\, which explains the causes of social revolutions. In the book\, Skocpol performs a comparative historical analysis of the French Revolution of 1789 through the early 19th century\, the Russian Revolution of 1917 through the 1930s and the Chinese Revolution of 1911 through the Cultural Revolution in the 1960s. Skocpol argues that social revolutions occurred in these states because of the simultaneous occurrence of state breakdown and peasant revolution at the same time. \nSkocpol asserts that social revolutions are rapid and basic transformations of a society’s state and class structures. She distinguishes this from mere rebellions\, which involve a revolt of subordinate classes but may not create structural change\, and from political revolutions that may change state structures but not social structures. What is unique about social revolutions\, she argues\, is that basic changes in social structure and political structure occur in a mutually reinforcing fashion and these changes occur through intense sociopolitical conflict. A convergence of peasant rebellion on one hand and international pressures causing state breakdown on the other hand cause revolutionary social movements. \nThe book was highly influential in the study of revolutions\, and has been credited with ushering in a new paradigm. All who register will be put in touch with Sam for information on obtaining reading material. \nNo prerequisites nor any preparation is required. As stated above\, ADMISSION IS FREE. \n  \ninfo@marxedproject.org for more information and other events and classes. \nZoom info for these sessions: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/84694992151
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/states-and-social-revolutions-a-comparative-analysis-of-france-russia-and-china/2022-01-23/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:China,Chinese Revolution,Classes/Events,Emancipation,Enclosures,French Revolution,Hegemony,historical materialism,Insurgency,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Revolutions Study Group,Russian Revolution,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:After Wampum\, the Evolution of Money in Colonial America
DESCRIPTION:with Peter Fay\nHow did money evolve? In Das Kapital Karl Marx says commodities emerged in early societies: “where communities have their boundaries\, at their points of contact with othercommunities.” Money then “comes to be attached either to the most important articles of exchange from outside… or to the object of utility which forms the chief element of indigenous alienable wealth.” \nDid this evolution also occur on boundaries of later empires?  We will travel back in time to colonial New England and New York to closely examine Marx’s views on money at the periphery of the British empire. Scarcity of British currency forced many commodities toward the role of “universal equivalent”: Indian corn\, tobacco\, pieces of eight. But it was colonial thirst for luxury commodities like beaver pelts that finally drove an explosive growth in the one money-commodity facilitating that trade: wampum. \nAll traditions in this world became inverted:  Indigenous nations who dominated the wealth in wampum and fur were soon its slave. Wampum had opposite meanings to different actors speaking a polyglot of Algonquian or European tongues. To Narragansettpeople it was a symbol of great spiritual power to bond tribes in fealty. To European fur traders it was a debaser of tribal customs to foster commodity production. To Puritan governors it was a ransom from tribes for penalties and treaties. But to all it was an indispensable bond\, constantly evolving and expanding\, without which society would unravel. \nFor twenty years\, PETER FAY has researched history across dozens of archives\, participating in public art and historical projects as a Marxist public historian at universities\, libraries\, and public forums across New England. He uncovered never-before known histories of Black and Indigenous Revolutionary War veterans\, early millworkers\, and mariners\, during the transformation of enslaved labor to wage slavery in Rhode Island. \nPeter is a co-founder of the Newport Middle Passage Project\, the Jamestown Friends of Black History and sits on the Board of the Jamestown Historical Society. Earlier he held leadership positions in the labor movement in steel\, electrical\, and health care. He retired after a 30-year career in software engineering in commercial and educational institutions\, most recently at Brown University. \nPictured above: European and indigenous fur traders in North America  (Fadden\, 1777\, Wikimedia Commons)\n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/wampum-and-the-evolution-of-money-in-colonial-america/2022-01-31/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Colonialism,Grundrisse,historical materialism,Money,Political Economy,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:The MEP Bookstore\, Fall 2021/Winter 2022 (inclusive of shipping—US and Puerto Rico only)
DESCRIPTION:These books are being offered at a discount to all of The MEP community with prices including books and shipping. Each book listed here is part of or related to a presentation\, reading group or series of presentations both ongoing and beginning during the 2021 terms of study. Descriptions of books are either in descriptions on the site or will be described on the site shortly. \nLeft Populism in Europe: Lessons from Corbyn to Podemos  by Marina Prentoulis \nA People’s Guide to Capitalism by Hadas Thier \nClass\, Party and Revolution\, A Socialist Register Reader \nThe Last Years of Karl Marx by Marcello Musto \nMarx Dead and Alive by Andy Merrifield \nSocialist Register 2021: Beyond Digital Capitalism: New Ways of Living \nSocialist Register 2020: Beyond Market Dystopia: New Ways of Living \nPluto’s Wildcat Series: The High Cost of Free Shipping by Jake Alimahomed-Wilson and Ellen Reese\, Organizing Insurgency by Immanuel Ness\, Amakomiti by Trevor Ngwane\, Worker’s Inquiry and Global Class Struggle\, edited by Robert Ovetz\, Augmented Exploitation\, Edited by Phoebe V. Moore and Jamie Woodcock\, Wobblies of the World\, edited by Peter Cole\, David Struthers and Kenyon Zimmer. \nPluto’s FireWorks Series: Pandemic Solidarity\, edited by Marina Sitrin and Colectiva Sembrar\, Exploring Degrowth by Vincent Liegey and Anitra Nelson\, Reinventing the Welfare State by Ursula Huws\, and Empire’s Endgame with contributions from Gargi Bhattacharyya\, Adam Elliott-Cooper\, Sita Balani and more. \nThe Brutish Museums by Dan Hicks \nVoices of the Paris Commune translated by Mitch Abidor \nBen Fletcher: The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly\, edited by Peter Cole \nBookMarx Bookmarks \nUnfortunately\, we cannot calculate postage outside of the United States so the combined price  is only good for mailing addresses in the United States. If you would like to calculate the cost of book and shipping to another country\, write to info@marxedproject.org indicating your interest and what you estimate postage will be.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-mep-bookstore-january-2021-term-books-with-shipping-included/2022-01-31/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,automation,Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Ecosocialism,Intro to Marxism,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Revolutions Study Group
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DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220202T183000
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SUMMARY:The Necessity of Social Control by István Mészáros
DESCRIPTION:Reading and discussion with the Capital Studies Group\nSix More Sessions (recordings of earlier sessions available) \n“We are living in a time of unprecedented historical crisis\, which affects all forms of the capital system\, not just capitalism. It is easy to understand\, then\, that the only thing that could produce a viable solution to the contradictions that we have to face would be a radical socialist alternative to capital’s mode of social metabolic control.”   —István Mészáros \nDuring these next eight sessions we will do an ongoing close reading of Mészáros’ The Necessity of Social Control (Monthly Review Press). This read in order to better understand the fundamental contradictions of capitalism\, the forms of domination and exploitation inherent in its logic\, historical efforts to develop an alternative economy and society\, and the challenge of sustainable development and substantive equality. We aim to develop our own knowledge of the necessary conditions for emancipation and discuss the relevance of the text for our lives today. \nDaniel Singer writes that the most important lesson from Mészáros “is the confrontation between two fundamentally opposed “metabolisms.” The rule of capital is presented as an integrated system… The socialist project must be equally comprehensive… How do you mobilize people within the framework of the existing society\, while providing answers that take you beyond its confines?” \nFor reference\, the sections we will first cover are presented here from the Table of Contents: \n\nThe Necessity of Social Control\n\nThe Counter-Factual Conditionals of Apologetic Ideology\nCapitalism and Ecological Destruction\nThe Crisis of Domination\nFrom “Repressive Tolerance” to the Liberal Advocacy of Repression\nWar if the Normal Methods of Expansion Fail\nThe Emergence of Chronic Unemployment\nThe Intensification of the Rate of Exploitation\nCapital’s “Correctives” and Socialist Control\n\n\nMarxism Today\n\nSartre’s Alternative\nMarxism Today\nMickey Mouse Socialism\nThe Problem of Organization\n\n\nCausality\, Time and Forms of Mediation\n\nCausality and Time under Capital’s Causa Sui\nThe Vicious Circle of Capital’s Second Order Mediations\n\n\nThe Activation of Capital’s Absolute Limits\n\nAll events are sliding scale—choose the level at which you are able to contribute to The Marxist Education Project. No one is denied admission to any event or class because of an inability to pay. Send an email to info@marxedproject.org to obtain an entry url to any event or class presented by The Marxist Education Project. \nThe Capital Studies Group has been meeting from the beginning of The Marxist Education Project during the fall of 2014. We are a diverse group of students\, activists and teachers from all corners of the world who have dedicated ourselves to the reading of all three volumes of Marx’s Capital and related works to such a study.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-necessity-of-social-control-by-istvan-meszaros/2022-02-02/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Classes/Events,Critical Theory,Emancipation,Globalization,Hegemony,historical materialism,Marx's Capital,Multi-session Classes,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Technology
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SUMMARY:The Politics of Permaculture with Terry Leahy
DESCRIPTION:‘What is permaculture?’ \nIf you have just heard of the movement and do not know much about it\, you might well think that permaculture is about food growing and gardens. But if you have asked a permaculture afficionado you will have been told that that conception is a mistake. In fact\, there are a variety of different ways of defining permaculture. As a sustainable system of agriculture based on tree crops\, as a system of sustainable agriculture and settlement design\, as a design philosophy for a sustainable society. There is much to be gained from exploring these different conceptions in detail. Those are questions about the foundation of permaculture in ideas. But it is also important to explain permaculture as a social movement\, a body of people\, their actions and the ways that they think about the world. \nPermaculture is an environmental movement that makes us reevaluate what it means to be sustainable. Through innovative agriculture and settlement design\, the movement creates new communities that are harmonious with nature. It has grown from humble origins on a farm in 1970s Australia and flourished into a worldwide movement that confronts industrial capitalism. \nThe Politics of Permaculture is one of the first books to unpack the theory and practice of this social movement that looks to challenge the status quo. Drawing upon the rich seam of publications and online communities from the movement as well as extensive interviews with permaculture practitioners and organisations from around the world\, Leahy explains the ways permaculture is understood and practiced in different contexts. In the face of extreme environmental degradation and catastrophic climate change\, we urgently need a new way of living. \nThis book is available to download through the Open Access program. \nTERRY LEAHY has been involved in the permaculture movement since its founding in 1978. He has lectured in universities since 1973 and retired at the end of 2016. His recent book\, Food Security for Rural Africa: Feeding the Farmers First (Routledge\, 2018)\, outlines a permaculture strategy for Africa and shows how projects can be designed to make this work in practice. \n\nAll events are sliding scale—choose the level at which you are able to contribute to The Marxist Education Project. No one is denied admission to any event or class because of an inability to pay. Send an email to info@marxedproject.org to obtain an entry url to any event or class presented by The Marxist Education Project.\n\n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-politics-of-permaculture-with-terry-leahy/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Agribusiness,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Ecosocialism,Food and politics,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks,Social Reproduction
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SUMMARY:A People's History of Detroit and Detroit\, I Do Mind Dying
DESCRIPTION:reading and discussion for 4 weeks with the Capital Studies Group of the Marxist Education Project \nThese two books will be the focus:  A People’s History of Detroit by Mark Jay and Philip Conklin with Detroit\, I Do Mind Dying by Dan Georgakas and Marvin Surkin. \nIn A People’s History of Detroit\, Mark Jay and Philip Conklin use a class framework to tell a sweeping story of Detroit from 1913 to the present\, embedding Motown’s history in a global economic context. Attending to the struggle between corporate elites and radical working-class organizations\, Jay and Conklin outline the complex sociopolitical dynamics underlying major events in Detroit’s past\, from the rise of Fordism and the formation of labor unions\, to deindustrialization and the city’s recent bankruptcy. \nDetroit: I Do Mind Dying tracks the extraordinary development of the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement and the League of Revolutionary Black Workers as they became two of the landmark political organizations of the 1960s and 1970s. It is widely heralded as one the most important books on the black liberation movement. \n“Equal parts an urban history of a single city and a sweeping theory of capitalism. . . . Through a detailed exposition of one city’s past\, A People’s History of Detroit imagines what a people’s future could look like in Detroit—and in other cities.” — David Helps\,  Public Books \nTHE CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP is comprised of a group of instructors\, students\, activists\, and others who often engage with close readings of books and other texts that address issues central to the development of understanding how the class struggle between capital and labor has played out and is especially interested in the development of deep historical understandings of the development of capitalism globally\, nationally\, regionally\, and also in areas local to participants. Currently\, the Capital Studies Group convenes on Saturdays 11 am to 1 pm each week in discussion of Marx’s Grundrisse. \n  \nA discounted A PEOPLE’S HISTORY OF DETROIT is available from DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS\ndukeupress.edu\n320 PAGES / 17 ILLUSTRATIONS\norder the book with this discount code: E20HSTRY \nDETROIT: I DO MIND DYING is available from Haymarket Books (and they ship quickly) https://www.haymarketbooks.org/ \nAll events are sliding scale—choose the level at which you are able to contribute to the Marxist Education Project. No one is denied admission to any event or class because of an inability to pay. Send an email to info@marxedproject.org to obtain an entry url to any event or class presented by the Marxist Education Project.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/a-peoples-history-of-detroit-and-detroit-i-do-mind-dying/2022-02-10/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,African American History,Austerity,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Classes/Events,Fordism,historical materialism,Labor History,Labor Organizing,Labor Process,Marx's Capital,Revolutions Study Group,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:Late Capitalist Fascism
DESCRIPTION:What if fascism can no longer be confined to political parties or ultra nationalist politicians but has become something much more diffuse that is spread across our societies as cultural expressions and psychological states? This is the thesis developed by Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen\, who argues that late capitalism has produced hollowed-out and exchangeable subjectivities that provide a breeding ground for a new kind of diffuse\, banal fascism. The overt and concentrated fascism of the new fascist parties thrives on the diffuse fascism present in social media and everyday life\, where the fear of being left behind and losing out has fuelled resentment towards foreigners and others who are perceived as threats to a national community under siege. Only by confronting both the overt fascism of parties and politicians and the diffuse fascism of everyday life will we be able to combat fascism effectively and prevent the slide into barbarism. \nMIKKEL BOLT RASMUSSEN is an art historian\, cultural critic and professor in Political Aesthetics at the University of Copenhagen. He has written books on the Situationist International\, politicized contemporary art and the revolutionary tradition. Previous books include Trump’s Counter-Revolution (Zero Books\, 2018) and After the Great Refusal (Zero Books\, 2018). \nPictured are: Estonian fascist Kaalep and French fascist LePen smiling together as they mutually display the fascist sign for white supremacy. LePen later asked Kaalep to take the image off his Facebook photo stream. More photos include a “White Way” protest in Plauen\, Germany\, a large fascist gathering in Poland\, the neo-Nazi Kotleba in Slovenia\, along with English fascists in the heart of London. \nOrder Mikkel’s book here: https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=late-capitalist-fascism–9781509547432. \nAll events are sliding scale—choose the level at which you are able to contribute to The Marxist Education Project. No one is denied admission to any event or class because of an inability to pay. Send an email to info@marxedproject.org to obtain an entry url to any event or class presented by The Marxist Education Project.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/late-capitalist-fascism/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Alienation,Anti-fascism,Classes/Events,Cultural Resistance,Globalization,Late Capital and Fascism,Media Criticism,Neo-fascism,Neoliberal Authoritarianism,Seminars and Talks
ORGANIZER;CN="The Revolutions Study Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org
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DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20220219T160000
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SUMMARY:The Art of Activism
DESCRIPTION:YOUR ALL-PURPOSE GUIDE  TO MAKING THE IMPOSSIBLE POSSIBLE!\nA presentation and discussion with Steve Duncombe and Steve Lambert\nTHE ART OF ACTIVISM  brings together the authors’ extensive practical knowledge—gleaned from over a decade’s experience training activists around the world—with theoretical insights from fields as far-ranging as cultural studies and cognitive science. From the United Farm Workers’ boycott movement in sixties’ California to a canal-side beach in present-day Saint Petersburg\, these pages are packed with contemporary and historical case studies that have been shown to work in practice. \nThere will also be discussion of the workbook that accompanies the core book which  contains 50 expertly crafted exercises to help activists flex their creative imagination and hone political tactics\, with step-by-step indications of to become the most persuasive and impactful artistic activist you can possibly be. \n \nTHE TWO STEVES: Steve Duncombe and Steve Lambert are co-founders of the Center for Artistic Activism\, a non-profit research and training organization devoted to helping activists create more like artists and artists to strategize more like activists. Over the past decade\, they’ve trained more than 1000 artistic activists across the United States and around the world. Steve D. is a lifelong activist\, who has also published six books and countless articles on the intersection of culture and politics\, most notably Dream or Nightmare: Reimagining Politics in an Age of Fantasy\, and the Cultural Resistance Reader. Steve L. is an internationally recognized artist whose public projects have appeared in Times Square\, cities around the United States\, and in London and Melbourne. He is featured in four documentary films and over two dozen books. He’s worked alongside the Yes Men and Greenpeace\, and won awards from the Art Matters Foundation\, Prix Ars Electronica\, and Creative Work Fund. Lambert is a professor of New Media at Purchase College\, the State University of New York’s public arts college. \nAll events are sliding scale—choose the level at which you are able to contribute to The Marxist Education Project. No one is denied admission to any event or class because of an inability to pay. Send an email to info@marxedproject.org to obtain an entry url to any event or class presented by The Marxist Education Project.\n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-art-of-activism/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Anti-capitalist art,Art and politics,Classes/Events,Critical Theory,Cultural Resistance,Media Criticism,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:Old and New Contradictions: Opening Socialist Register 2022 Session—The Crisis of Centrism
DESCRIPTION:Opening session of the Winter/Spring panels of authors who have presented essays in the current Socialist Register\, No. 58.\nFeaturing\nGreg Albo An Introduction to The Crisis of Centrism\, Socialist Register 58\nWalden Bello At the Summit of Global Capitalism: the US and China\nSimon Mohun Portrait of Neoliberalism: Rise of the One Percent\nSamir Sonti The Crisis of US Labor\, Past and Present\nThe stage is set well for Socialist Register No. 58 in the Preface by Greg Albo and Colin Leys:  [In the midst of the] “current multi-dimensional crisis\, the center-right consensus that was struck around the neoliberal policy regime has been steadily splintering\, with a phalanx of far right and neo-fascist groups inserting themselves into electoral politics and gaining prominence ‘in the streets’ (not least in motley demonstrations against pandemic measures of any kind\, from lockdowns to masking). The observation that capitalism is always characterized by just such economic and political polarizations has preoccupied – even haunted –socialist analysis from its very origins: in Marx’s and Engels’ memorable phrase of revolutionary optimism in The Communist Manifesto\, ‘the more or less open civil war\, raging within existing society\, up to the point where that war breaks out into open revolution\, and … lays the foundation for the sway of the proletariat’. In the much picked-over chapter in Marx’s Capital on ‘The General Law of Capitalist Accumulation’\, the language is just as vibrant but now stark in its imagery: ‘The greater the social wealth\, the functioning capital\, the extent and energy of its growth\, and therefore also the greater the absolute mass of the proletariat and the productivity of itslabor\, the greater is the industrial reserve army…. Accumulation of wealth at one pole is\, therefore\, at the same time the accumulation of misery\, the torment of labor\, slavery\, ignorance\, brutalization at the opposite pole\, i.e. on the side of the class that produces its own product as capital.’ \nThe first panel of the series addresses a number of the new contradictions emerging within global capital during this period —with the centrists attempting to right the neoliberal ship of state ly presenting more crises and a more defiant hard right. \n \nWALDEN BELLO writes from within the social movements of Southeast Asia and from the Philippines\, a particularly auspicious location from which to evaluate the growing rivalry between the US and China. His essay\, “At the Summit of Global Capitalism” provides a judicious assessment of the growing polarizations and contradictions in the inter-state system as the phase of US unilateral power gives way to a much more variegated world order. \nIt is appropriate that Socialist Register 58 begins with SIMON MOHUN’s “Portrait of Contemporary  Neoliberalism”. With the massive growth of inequalities in income and wealth being one of the most  commonly agreed-upon polarizations today\, Mohun argues that most ‘important for understanding the  structure and dynamic of neoliberalism has been the large and sustained increase in income share’ accruing to the richest one per cent. A movement to begin radical state action breaking with neoliberalism is imperative. \nSAMIR SONTI addresses the prospects and strategies for rebuilding a labor movement in the US after Trumpism in his essay on the ongoing crisis for US labor. The challenge in rebuilding a union movement is in organizing campaigns keeping a focus on aligning the interests of the workers who provide essential services with the interests of the communities that depend on those workers. He points out the dangers of having labor campaigns slip into spending their energies aligning with the interests of the Biden administration instead of the communities that they are engaged with. \nWALDEN BELLO is currently the International Adjunct Professor of Sociology at the State University of New York at Binghamton and Co-Chairperson of the Bangkok-based research and advocacy institute Focus on the Global South. \nSIMON MOHUN is Professor Emeritus of Political Economy at Queen Mary\, University in London. \nSAMIR SONTI has worked as a union organizer in the US and now teaches at the City University of New York School of Labor and Urban Studies. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/old-and-new-contradictions-opening-socialist-register-2022-session-the-crisis-of-centrism/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Marx's Capital,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks,Socialist Register
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SUMMARY:Beyond Money: A Postcapitalist Strategy with Anitra Nelson
DESCRIPTION:In order to overcome environmental and social crises\, we must move beyond money\n‘“Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines\, or else you say something which in fact is true\, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune.” —Noam Chomsky\, Propaganda and the Public Mind (2001) \n“If you had to choose one book to read on making the next political economy and reinventing postcapitalism it should be this one.”  —Adam David Morton\, Global Capitalism\, Global War\, Global Crisis (2018) \n“A fascinating portal into arguments about why we need to get beyond money.”     —Harry Cleaver\, Rupturing the Dialectic (2017) \nMany radical approaches for achieving postcapitalism target capital\, maintaining money and markets in their visions and strategies. But what if money is the barrier to us achieving ecological sustainability and social equality? After all\, we know how to live sustainably but market-based economies which of necessity are centered on monetary values prevent us from instituting the social and ecological measures required for health and peaceful co-existence among our own and with the other species of this earth. \nSo\, what might a world beyond the discipline and constraints of the market look and feel like? And how would it operate to meet our basic needs? Moving from production for trade (for the market) to production on demand\, activist scholar Anitra Nelson advocates a community mode of production and calls on us to ‘occupy the world’. Come along to hear about and engage in this lively intervention in current debates on postcapitalist futures. \nANITRA NELSON is a global–local activist and Honorary Principal Fellow at University of Melbourne (Australia)\, author of Small is Necessary: Shared Living on a Shared Planet (2018) co-author of Exploring Degrowth (2020)\, co-editor of Life Without Money: Building Fair and Sustainable Economies (2011) and Marx’s Concept of Money: The God of Commodities (1999/2014). See: https://anitranelson.info
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/beyond-money-a-postcapitalist-strategy-with-anitra-nelson/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Ecosocialism,Marx,Marxisms,Money,Political Economy,Seminars and Talks,Transition from Capitalism
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SUMMARY:The European Radical Left: Movements and Parties Since the 1960s
DESCRIPTION:with author Giorgos Charalambous\nIs today’s left really new? How has the European radical left evolved?\nGiorgos Charalambous answers these questions by looking at three moments of rapid political change – the late 1960s to late 1970s; the turn of the millennium; and post-2008. He challenges the conventional understanding of a ‘new left’\, drawing out continuities with earlier movements and parties. Charalambous examines the ‘Long ’68’\, symbolized by the May uprisings in France\, which saw the rise of new left forces and the widespread criticism by younger radical activists of traditional communist and socialist parties. He puts this side by side with the turn of the millennium when the Global Justice Movement rose to prominence and changed the face of the international left\, and also the period after the financial crash of 2008 and the rise of anti-austerity politics which initiated the most recent wave of new left parties such as Podemos in Spain and Syriza in Greece. \nWith a unique ‘two-level’ perspective\, Charalambous approaches the left through both social movements and party politics\, looking at identities\, rhetoric and organization\, and bringing a fresh new approach to radical history\, as well as assessing challenges for both activists and scholars. \nThis book is available to download through the Open Access program. \nGiorgos Charalambous is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Department of Politics and Governance\, University of Nicosia. He is also the co-convenor of the Left Radicalism Specialist Group at the Political Studies Association. Charalambous is the author of European Integration and the Communist Dilemma (Ashgate\, 2013)\, and has co-edited Party-Society Relations in Cyprus (Routledge\, 2016) and Left Radicalism and Populism in Europe (Routledge\, 2019).
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-european-radical-left-movements-and-parties-since-the-1960s-2/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Art and politics,Capital vs. Labor,Classes/Events,Italian history,Left Populism,Revolutions Study Group,Seminars and Talks,Social Democracy,Socialism,Solidarity
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SUMMARY:Insurrecto with author Gina Apostol in conversation with Patricia McManus
DESCRIPTION:“Of course\, as opposed to the colonizer\, the world of the colonized is visibly and thus irreparably multiple – because included in the world of the colonized is the world of the colonizer.”. —How Do We Know the Things That Make Us?\, An essay from Gina Apostol \nGina Apostol’s Insurrecto is a harrowing depiction of the nearly 125-year history of U.S. intervention\, occupation\, and domination in the Philippines. Through a compelling historical\, cultural\, post-modernist journey\, the author recounts the U.S. hold on the Philippines\, as told by Magsalin\, a Filipina translator and screenwriter\, and Chiara\, an American filmmaker. The U.S.-made merry-go-round of dictators has circled around Manila and the 7\,000-plus islands of the Philippines since the 1901 massacre at Balangiga—the slaughter of more than 2\,500 Filipinos in retaliation for 40 American soldiers killed in a raid by local national liberationists. When President Theodore Roosevelt issued a command to pacify the Philippines after the raid was reported to him\, the local U.S. general issued the following command:  “I want no prisoners. I wish you to kill and burn; the more you kill and burn\, the better it will please me… The interior of Samar must be made a howling wilderness.” From that point on he was known as “Howling Wilderness” Smith. Insurrecto spans the decades from the moment of the massacre to the current Duterte regime\, with much between—a fractured story of torture and misrepresentation over many years of U.S. and western hegemony. \nPlease join Gina Apostol and  Patricia McManus for an evening of discovery as they discuss the inspiration\, writing\, and more of this astonishing novel (published by Soho Press). \nGINA APOSTOL’s third book\, Gun Dealers’ Daughter\, won the2013 PEN/Open Book Award and was shortlisted for the William Saroyan International Prize. Her first two novels\, Bibliolepsy and The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata\, both won the Juan Laya Prize for the Novel (Philippine National Book Award). She was a fellow at Civitella Ranieri in Umbria\, Italy\, among other fellowships. Her essays and stories have appeared in The New York Times\, Los Angeles Review of Books\, Foreign Policy\, Gettysburg Review\, Massachusetts Review\, and others. She lives in New York City and western Massachusetts and grew up in Tacloban\, Philippines. She teaches at the Fieldston School in New York City. \nPATRICIA McMANUS is a Senior Lecturer\, School of Humanities at University of Brighton. She is the founder of the Dystopia Project. Her research interests are the novel—in particular the problems involved in understanding genre as a productive force in literary history—and Marxism as a methodology for utopianism.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/insurrecto/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:American Imperialism,American Literature,Anti-fascism,Asia,Classes/Events,Colonialism,Critical Theory,Cultural Resistance,Globalization,Literary Studies,Radical Literature,Seminars and Talks
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ORGANIZER;CN="MEP Literature Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org
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SUMMARY:Part One of Antonio Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks
DESCRIPTION:Study conducted with Piruz Alemi\nFour more sessions remain\n \nANTONIO GRAMSCI is widely known throughout the world for his impact on social and political thought. In this seminar we will cover select key passages of Joseph Buttigieg translation of Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks. This is the first full version (Not a selection) of an English translation of eight Notebooks of Gramsci never provided before that gives the reader to then selectively focus in areas of their own interest and research\, without a cut. \nWe will delve into key themes and concepts related tocivil society and state: politics and the arts\, racism\, class and gender\, religion\, linguistics and other methods of analysis\, critical theory\, mass media and cinema\, hegemony and subalternity studies as well as the role of intellectuals and activists in discovering new methods and languages to be transformative. A Gramscian “Past & Present” approach is key to our work. \nThroughout these sessions\, we will attempt to connect our cultures and life experiences with contemporary struggles. We will also explore those who influenced Gramsci\, particularly Marx\, but also Machiavelli and Croce. \nThese seminars are accessible to people at all levels of familiarity with Gramsci’s work\, including those just beginning their studies of Gramsci. \nPiruz Alemi holds a PhD in political economy from New School for Social Research as well as a MFA in documentary film making from CCNY. He is director of the People of Color International Cultural Exchange Film Festival and teaches at the John Jay College of the City University of New York. \nAll events and classes are sliding scale. No one is ever turned away for inability to pay. Simply email to info@marxedproject.org to request the URL of the Zoom session(s) for this or other class or event. \n  \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/part-one-of-antonio-gramscis-prison-notebooks-3-volume-version/2022-03-13/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Critical Theory,Fordism,Hegemony,historical materialism,Italian history,Labor History,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:The Invention of the White Race
DESCRIPTION:Volume One\, Racial Oppression and Social Control (1994) and\nVolume Two\, The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America (1997)\, by Theodore W. Allen\nThis is a new edition combining both volumes into one book\nA reading and discussion group convened with Sean Ahern\n“Racial Capitalism\,” “Critical Race Theory\,” “Settler Colonialism\,” “Whiteness Studies\,” “The 1619 controversy\,” “Identity Politics\,” “Black Marxism\,” “Caste vs Race” identify some of the ideas\, lenses and explanations that contend for our attention.  A fair consideration of these and other contending approaches may all be well informed by studying the truly seminal work\, The Invention of the White Race by Theodore W Allen\, reading from the third edition\, released by Verso in January 2022 which combines both volumes into a single book with a new introduction by Jeffrey B. Perry\, Allen’s literary executor. (here is link to 40% off 3rd edition of The Invention of the White Race [2 volumes in one book]:  Verso) \nIn 1972\, after over 30 years of activism in the labor and communist movements\, Allen shared the following strategic insight with a new generation of revolutionaries: “The most vulnerable point at which a decisive blow can be struck against bourgeois rule in the United States is white supremacy.  White supremacy is both the keystone (in the arch) and the Achilles heel of U.S. bourgeois democracy\, the historic form of bourgeois rule in the US.  It is a vulnerable point because it is a historically developed and unresolvable internal contradiction of US bourgeois democracy.  It is the decisive vulnerable point because – as history has repeatedly proved – the basic class contradictions in bourgeois democracy can never fully mature until and unless the anti-proletarian nature of white supremacy has been completely established in the minds of the proletarian masses.” \nAllen spent the next 20 years researching the primary sources and writing his magnum opus.  It provides a historical materialist analysis of racial oppression and the white identity which emerged as a principal form of social control over a rebellious laboring class of Europeans and Africans in the pattern setting colonies of Virginia and Maryland in the 17th and early 18th century.  It is a history for today. \nSean Ahern was radicalized as a NYC high school student between 1968-1971 and was drawn to activism in labor struggles in the 70s and 80s with the American Postal Workers Union and the Transport Workers. Sean lives in the Lower East Side where he grew up and went to school. Sean met Theodore Allen in 1971\, studied with him and helped to distribute “Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery:  The Invention of the White Race (1975)” which served as a precis for Allen’s magnum opus\, The Invention of the White Race Volume 1:  Racial Oppression and Social Control and Volume Two:  The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-invention-of-the-white-race-new-edition/2022-03-15/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Anti-colonialism,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Emancipation,historical materialism,Labor Organizing,Labor Process,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:Animals and Capitalism:
 Reading and Reflecting on ‘Porkopolis’
DESCRIPTION:Convened by Terike Haapoja and Fred Murphy\nA discussion and reading group on the central role of nonhuman animals in the capitalist economy\, both historically and today. We will explore the potential and limits of Marxist theory for addressing the roles and fates of nonhuman animals\, as well as ways to connect anticapitalist struggles to animal liberation and environmental justice. \nThe main reading will be Alex Blanchette’s Porkopolis: American Animality\, Standardized Life\, and the Factory Farm\, with supplemental texts on nonhuman animal work in the history of capitalism\, Marxism and animal liberation\, biological reproduction in animal agriculture\, and related topics. Through these readings we will explore how exploitation of animal bodies and the labor of nonhuman animals is bound up in the exploitation of human workers and the overall development of capitalism. Author Alex Blanchette will be joining us on March 9 to introduce his book. \nTerike Haapoja is a visual artist based in New York. Her interdisciplinary practice includes installations\, videos\, writings and collaborative projects that explore our relationship with the more-than-human world; mechanisms of exclusion and inclusion; and the possibility of political multispecies alliances. She is an adjunct professor at Parsons Fine Arts and New York University. \nFred Murphy has led numerous study groups on ecosocialism\, science and technology\, the history of capitalism\, and Latin American politics at the Marxist Education Project since 2015. He studied and taught historical sociology at the New School for Social Research. \n  \n  \nSix more sessions remain \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/animals-and-capitalism%e2%80%a8-reading-and-reflecting-on-porkopolis/2022-03-16/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Agribusiness,Alienation,Animals and Capital,automation,Classes/Events,Climate Change,Ecosocialism,Evolutionary biology,Food and politics,Multi-session Classes,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:Karl Marx’s Writings on Alienation: A discussion with Marcello Musto and Michael Hardt
DESCRIPTION:“The realm of freedom really begins only where labor determined by necessity and external expediency ends; it lies by its very nature beyond the sphere of material production proper. Just as the savage must wrestle with nature to satisfy his needs\, to maintain and reproduce his life\, so must civilized man\, and he must do so in all forms of society and under all possible modes of production. This realm of natural necessity expands with his development\, because his needs do too; but the productive forces to satisfy these expand at the same time. Freedom\, in this sphere\, can consist only in this\, that socialized man\, the associated producers\, govern the human metabolism with nature in a rational way\, bringing it under their collective control instead of being dominated by it as a blind power; accomplishing it with the least expenditure of energy and in conditions most worthy and appropriate for their human nature. But this always remains a realm of necessity. The true realm of freedom\, the development of human powers as an end in itself\, begins beyond it\, though it can only flourish with this realm of necessity as its basis. The reduction of the working day is the basic prerequisite.” —Karl Marx\, Capital: A Critique of Political Economy\, Volume Three \nThe postcapitalist system of production\, together with scientific–technological progress and a consequent reduction of the working day\, creates the possibility for a new social formation in which the coercive\, alienated labor imposed by capital and subject to its laws is gradually replaced with conscious\, creative activity beyond the yoke of necessity\, and in which complete social relations take the place of random\, undifferentiated exchange dictated by the laws of commodities and money. It is no longer the realm of freedom for capital but the realm of genuine human freedom.\n—Marcello Musto\, Introduction to Karl Marx’s Writings on Alienation \nMarcello Musto is a professor of Sociology at York University (Toronto\, Canada) and is acknowledged globally as one of the authors who has made significant contributions to the revival of Marx studies over the last decade. His major writings comprise Another Marx: Early Manuscripts to the International (Bloomsbury\, 2018); and The Last Years of Karl Marx: An Intellectual Biography (Stanford\, 2020). Among his edited books there are Workers Unite! The International 150 Years Later (Bloomsbury\, 2014); Marx’s Capital after 150 Years: Critique and Alternative to Capitalism\, (Routledge\, 2019); and The Marx Revival: Key Concepts and New Interpretations (Cambridge\, 2020). His writings are available at  www.marcellomusto.org and have been published in 25 languages. \nMICHAEL HARDT is a professor of Literature at Duke University\, and a political philosopher whose writings explore new forms of domination in the world as well as social movements and other forces of liberation that counter such domination. In the Empire trilogy—Empire (Harvard\, 2000)\, Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire(Penguin\, 2004)\, and Commonwealth (Harvard\, 2009)—he and Antonio Negri investigate the political\, legal\, economic\, and social aspects of globalization. Their most recent work\, Assembly (Oxford\, 2017)\, challenges social movements having traditional\, centralized forms of political leadership and instead advocate a social unionism—a combination of mixing labor organizing with social movements.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/karl-marxs-writings-on-alienation/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Alienation,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Class,Classes/Events,Das Kapital,Emancipation,Grundrisse,Intro to Marxism,Marx,Marx and Hegel,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Revolutions Study Group,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:The Hard Right and the Political Parties of Capital
DESCRIPTION:2nd in the Socialist Register 58 Series: Old Polarizations\, New Contradictions: The Crisis of Centrism\nBILL FLETCHER                  Trump and the Danger of Right-wing Populism in the US\nSAMIR GANDESHA            Identity Crisis: The Politics of False Concreteness\nINGAR SOLTY                       Market Polarization Means Political Polarization \nBill Fletcher’s essay on the “Danger of Right-Wing Populism in the US” presents a careful appraisal of the forces marshalled on the right over the course of the Trump presidency\, leading to the insurrection of January 2021. Fletcher’s longstanding contention\, put forth in his widely-noted ‘Stars and Bars’ essay in the Politics of the Right volume\, was of the dangers of a rightwing mass movement emerging in the US. \nSamir Gandesha seeks an answer in what he identifies as ‘a fragmentation of the universalism that had historically underwritten the struggle for socialism’ leading to what he terms a ‘politics of false concreteness’ centered on forms of identity politics on both the left and the right. Indeed\, in the absence of a ‘left universalism’\, Gandesha argues\, ‘we can only expect the logic of polarization to drive an already accelerating authoritarianism\, as rightwing demagogues mobilize support based on racialized grievances’. This can only be met by a ‘class identity’ that seeks a universalism ‘in its own self-dissolution’\, that is\, in the struggle against classes as such and thus capitalism. \nIngar Solty’s “Market Polarization Means Political Polarization” is a third assessment of this particular moment. Solty’s contention is that the social polarizations that result from the market processes set in motion by neoliberalism bring with them a political polarization in the form of fissures in the party systems of liberal democracies\, allowing the hard right new political space to occupy and permitting varied forms of authoritarian nationalism to take hold. He concludes with the gravest of warnings: unless a new organized working-class politics emerges\, this world world will further and further slip down the slope of liberalism into fascism’. \nIN MEMORY OF LEO PANITCH • 1945-2020  / All of us at The Marxist Education Project appreciate all that Leo did and is continuing to do following his untimely death one year ago this past December. This series which begins on February 20 is presented in his memory as it represents a few of the many fruits that still spring from the myriad seeds that Leo has planted. \nBILL FLETCHER JR. is a long-time trade unionist\, writer\, and a past president of TransAfrica Forum.\nSAMIR GANDESHA is Professor and Director of the Institute for the Humanities at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver.\nINGAR SOLTY is Senior Research Fellow in Foreign\, Peace and Security Policy at the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation’s Institute for Critical Social Analysis in Berlin. \nAll book offers include US Media Mail. The book offers are for US addresses only as the costs for shipping outside of the US are often more than the price of the book. From Canada\, the book can be ordered from Fernwood. Merlin Press in the UK is the best source for other areas of the world. \nAll events are sliding scale. No one is denied admission for inability to pay. Please write info@marxedproject.org for more information. \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-hard-right-and-the-political-parties-of-capital/
CATEGORIES:Accumulation of Capital,Alienation,Anti-fascism,Capital Studies,Capital vs. Labor,Classes/Events,Das Kapital,Emancipation,Food and politics,Late Capital and Fascism,Marxist Method,Media Criticism,Neo-fascism,Neoliberal Authoritarianism,Race and Class,Science and Method,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:Never-Ending War!: Novels on Conflict\, Resistance and Resilience
DESCRIPTION:with The MEP Literature Studies Group (five more weeks)\n“Fiction gives us empathy: it puts us inside the minds of other people\, gives us the gifts of seeing the world through their eyes. Fiction is a lie that tells us true things\, over and over.” – Neil Gaiman \nThe Marxist Education Project Lit reading group revisits some literary classics along with contemporary novels that are prescient and compelling –challenging us to think about our understanding of history and how we will confront the present moment. \n  \nColonel Chabert by Honoré de Balzac (originally published in 1832)\nOne of the shorter\, but also prescient novels of Balzac’s “The Human Comedy” (La Comédie Humaine)\, Colonel Chabert Balzac juxtaposes two world-views: the Napoleonic value-system\, founded on honor and military valor and that of the Restoration\, through the story of a returning soldier who is literally dead to the world. The discussion of this has concluded. \nAt Night All Blood is Black by David Diop (2018)\nAlfa Ndiaye is a Senegalese man who\, never before having left his village\, finds himself fighting as a so-called “Chocolat” soldier with the French army during World War One. Peppered with bullets and magic\, this remarkable novel fills in a forgotten chapter in the history of the “Great War’\, as WWI was known until the next world war. Blending oral storytelling traditions with the gritty\, day-to-day\, journalistic horror of life in the trenches\, David Diop’s At Night All Blood is Black is a dazzling tale of a descent into complete madness The discussion of this has concluded. \nThe Pull of the Stars by Emma Donaghue (2020)\nDublin\, 1918: three days in a maternity ward at the height of the Great Flu. A small world of work\, risk\, death and unlooked-for love. In an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease\, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospital in the city center—the ward where expectant mothers who have come down with the terrible new flu are quarantined. \nConquered City by Victor Serge (1932)\n1919-1920: St. Petersburg\, city of the czars\, has fallen to the Revolution. Conquered City is about terror: the Red Terror and the White Terror. But mainly about the Red\, the Communists who have dared to pick up the weapons of power—police\, guns\, jails\, spies\, treachery—in the doomed gamble that by wielding them righteously\, they can put an end to the need for terror\, perhaps forever. Conquered City is their tragedy and testament. \nSlaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut (1969)\nSlaughterhouse Five follows the life and experiences of Billy Pilgrim\, from his early years\, to his time as an American soldier and chaplain’s assistant during World War II\, to the post-war years\, with Billy occasionally traveling through time. The time travel returns to the fire-bombing of Dresden\, which was a firebombing by the British and Americans incinerating about 25\,000. Vonnegut’s novel has been called an example of “unmatched moral clarity” and “one of the most enduring antiwar novels of all time”. Vonnegut had been a prisoner of war in Dresden during this bombing. \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/never-ending-war-novels-on-conflict-resistance-and-resilience/2022-03-24/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:American Literature,Anti-capitalist art,Art and politics,Classes/Events,Cultural Resistance,Literary Studies,Radical Literature,Seminars and Talks,Speculative fiction,War Fiction
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SUMMARY:Marx and Spinoza:  Connections and Provocations
DESCRIPTION:A presentation and discussion with Jason Read\n“…in the postindustrial age the Spinozan critique of representation of capitalist power corresponds more to the truth than does the analysis of political economy.”\n—Antonio Negri\nReaders of contemporary theory will perhaps not be surprised to see the name Spinoza paired with that of Marx. Ever since Louis Althusser argued that he\, and his cowriters of Reading Capital\, were Spinozists rather than structuralists\, there has been an increased inquiry into the points of connection between Marx and Spinoza. It might even be possible to say that what the Hegel/Marx connection was to a previous generation\, animating the writings of Adorno\, Sartre\, Lukacs\, etc. the Marx/Spinoza connection is to a current collection of philosophers ranging from Althusser\, and the members of his circle such as Étienne Balibar and Pierre Macherey\, to Antonio Negri\, Frédéric Lordon\, Warren Montag\, and Hasana Sharp. \nThis shift in names also entails a fundamental change of problems. Whereas the relationship of Hegel to Marx was always one of the anxiety of influence\, trying to contend with both the massive influence that Hegel had on Marx as well as Marx’s attempt to critically distance himself from Hegel\, to separate the rational kernel from the mystical shell. The Spinoza/Hegel relation is less direct\, less a matter of the influence of the latter on the former\, than on their point of contact around connected problems.  These problems are less the problems that defined the Spinoza of Marx’s time\, the debates on pantheism\, Hegel’s attempt to shift the absolute from substance to subject\, than they are the debates framed by the attempts of Marxist theory to keep up with the changes of capitalism. To place it in classical Marxist terms\, Spinoza’s thought has provide the tools for developing a critique of the superstructure\, for an understanding of ideology\, power\, and the production of subjectivity. \nJASON READ is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern Maine. He is the author of The Micro-Politics of Capital: Marx and the Prehistory of the Present (SUNY 2003) and The Politics of Transindividuality (Brill 2015/Haymarket 2016) and a forthcoming collection of essays\, The Production of Subjectivity: Between Marxism and Post-Structuralism (Brill 2022) as well as The Double Shift: Marx and Spinoza on the Politics and Ideology of Work (Verso 2023). He blogs on popular culture\, philosophy\, and politics at unemployednegativity.com. \nAll events are sliding scale—choose the level at which you are able to contribute to The Marxist Education Project. No one is denied admission to any event or class because of an inability to pay. Send an email to info@marxedproject.org to obtain an entry url to any event or class presented by The Marxist Education Project.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/marx-and-spinoza-connections-and-provocations/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Class,Classes/Events,Critical Theory,Das Kapital,Marx and Spinoza,Marxist Method,Seminars and Talks,Spinoza
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SUMMARY:Soldiers of Revolution
DESCRIPTION:with author Mark Lause\n\nIn Soldiers of Revolution\, historian Mark A. Lause analyzes changes in European warfare in the closing decades of the 19th century and the consequences for working-class movements. The Franco-Prussian War of 1870–71 introduced new military technologies\, transformed the organization of armies\, and upset the continental balance of power. The mass armies that became a new standard required mass mobilizations of working people\, who exercised a new power through social democratic parties and insurgent movements. The Paris Commune of 1871 grew directly from discontent among radicalized soldiers and civilians pressed into armed service on behalf of institutions they had learned to mistrust. In brutally suppressing the Commune and butchering tens of thousands of Parisians\, the French rulers put an end to the old utopian faith that reason and morality could resolve social tensions. War among nations became linked to revolution\, and revolution became enmeshed in armed struggle. \n“This is military history at its broadest and best. Lause captures events and technologies of destruction to be sure but also the regimented labor of war\, the soldier’s experience of larger worlds and new comrades\, the coming to know of politics as a life and death matter\, and the invitation to interrogate national ideals. These transformations set the stage for the for both the Paris Commune and the brutality of its repression.”  —David Roediger \nhttps://www.versobooks.com/books/3865-soldiers-of-revolution \nMark A. Lause has published many works on labor history\, including The Great Cowboy Strike: Class\, Politics & Violence in the Making of the American West; Free Labor: the Civil War and the Making of the American Working Class\, and Long Road to Harpers Ferry: The Rise of the First American Left. He is Professor of History at the University of Cincinnati and has been a socialist for over fifty years. \nAll events are sliding scaleÑchoose the level at which you are able to contribute to The Marxist Education Project. No one is denied admission to any event or class because of an inability to pay. Email info@marxedproject.org to obtain an entry URL to any event or class presented by The Marxist Education Project.\nmain image is from a painting by Diego Rivera
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/soldiers-of-revolution/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Emancipation,Seminars and Talks
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